Multimedia Information Analysis and Retrieval

Presence technology: Accessing live multimedia information systems.- Content-based image database retrieval using variances of gray level spatial dependencies.- Content-based access of VRML libraries.- Web-WISE: compressed image retrieval over the web.- Embodying semiotic cues in video retrieval.- Supporting video applications through 4DIS temporal framework 4DIS temporal framework.- Video sequence similarity matching.- Image retrieval by multi-scale illumination invariant Indexing.- Finding pictures in context.- Image enhancement and improvement of both color and brightness contrast based on lateral inhibition method.- An area-based shape representation for affine invariant content-based retrieval.- A spatial query language for multiple data sources based on ?-operator sequences.- Video segmentation using color difference histogram.- A new scene breakpoint detection algorithm using slice of video stream.- A low latency hierarchical storage organization for multimedia data retrieval.-Exploiting image indexing techniques in DCT domain.- Content-based image indexing and retrieval in an image database for technical domains.- The PRIME information retrieval system applied on a medical corpus.- Envelope parameter calculation of similarity indexing structure.- Intra-block max-min algorithm for embedding robust digital watermark into images.